Jeff Goodell Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“The end of coal in Appalachia doesn't mean that America is running out of coal (there's plenty left in Wyoming). But it should end the fantasy that coal can be an engine of job creation - the big open pit mines in Wyoming employ a tiny fraction of the number of people in an underground mine in Appalachia.”

“What is likely to vanish - or be transformed beyond recognition - are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia: the barrier reef, the koalas, the sense of the country as a land of almost limitless natural resources.”

“It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.”

“Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline.”

“In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.”

“When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.”

“Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.”

“Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.”

“Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.”

“The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.”